That’s because the point-size system is not absolute-different fonts set at the same point size won’t necessarily appear the same on the page. Try sizes down to 10 point, including intermediate sizes like 10.5 and 11.5 point-half-point differences are meaningful at this scale.īut I can’t guarantee 12 point will always look too big. If you’re not required to use 12 point, don’t. CSS allows any size, but browsers will typically round to the nearest whole point. Pages allows finer increments of one-tenth of a point. Word lets you specify point sizes in half-point increments. (One major reason is cost: bigger point sizes require more paper.) Nearly every book, newspaper, and magazine is set smaller than 12 point. It’s not the most comfortable size for reading. Though 12 point has become the default size in digital word processing-and also the basis of many institutional document-formatting rules-that’s mostly due to the typewriter tradition.
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